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Adam Hyde is a sound and radio artist from New Zealand, and CEO of Floss
Manuals - Free Manuals for Free Software.He is the co-founder with
Honro Harger of r a d i o q u a l i a sound and media art collective.

Patrice Riemens (born 1950) is a geographer and currently the Fellow of the Waag Society in Amsterdam. He is a promoter of Open Knowledge and Free Software,
and has been involved as a "FLOSSopher" (a 'philosopher' of the
Free/Libre and Open Source Software movements) at the Asia Source and
Africa Source camps, held in 2005 and 2006 to promote FLOSS among
non-governmental organisations. He is a member of the staff of Multitudes.

Aaron Swartz is the founder of Demand Progress, which launched the
campaign against the Internet censorship bills (SOPA/PIPA) and now has
over a million members. He is also a Contributing Editor to The Baffler
and on the Council of Advisors to The Rules.

January 28, 2011 - Berlin - Today the book, An Open Web, is released
for download and sale on the Web. Written in 5 days by 6 collaborators,
An Open Web book sprint lead and Flossmanuals founder Adam Hyde said, "Zero to book in 5 days. It was an intensive process and loads of fun.
The collaborators met 9am Monday with no more text written than the
title and 5 days later published the book."

Software has, over the last few years, increasingly come into view as a cultural technique whose social and political impact ought to be studied carefully. To the extent that social processes rely on software for their execution - from systems of e-government and net-based education, online banking and shopping, to the organisation of social groups and movements -, it is necessary to understand the procedural specificities of the computer programmes employed, and the cultural and political 'rules' coded into them.

The four-day conference on the campus of the Universidade Estadual de
Campinas (Unicamp) brought together many key persons from the tactical
media movement of Brazil and some of their counterparts in the
Brasilian government.The movement is converging from roots in
free radio, free software, hardware hacking, art and social movements.
It is currently focussed around a large-scale project master-minded by
Claudio Prado and supported by the Ministry of Culture: ?Pontos de
Cultura? (Culture Spots) which is aiming to empower up to 600 cultural
projects with free software-based multimedia production and publication
facilities.

The World Social Forum, organized twice in Porto Alegre 2001 and 2002,
not only prompted a flurry of autonomous self-organization, crossborder
organization, and creative media interventions. It also initiated an
intense process of analysis and reflection on the tricky question of
a 'global' dynamic of self-organization.

Two years after 911 the global cup looks both half full and half empty.
It's hard to be optimistic, yet there are plenty of reasons for it.
With the Bush-Blair war machine running out of steam, the movement of
movements shifts its attention to alternatives for the WTO, Security
Council and similar post-democratic bodies. In the moral desert of the
Iraq War the structuration of imaginary consent through the repetitive
bombardment of the image began to show severe cracks in credibility.
These discrepancies within the represented result in a heightened need
for action. The Iraq war didn't fool any one and both sides are still
reeling a little from the shock. While maintaining their anger, people
moved on from protest to a collective search for that other, possible
world. What might a global democracy look like? Would it be a system
with representatives and 'rights,' or rather a dynamic set of events,
without higher aims?

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to
keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural
heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is
increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private
corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results
of the sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like
Reed Elsevier.